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Nissan to Halt Production in US Plants for a Week
In response to a crippling parts shortage from the Japan earthquake, Nissan is idling its American and Mexican plants for 6 days. The engine and vehicle assembly plants will be closed in April, and Nissan did not say how many of its cars will be lost. But to make up for this deficit the automaker…
Nissan Struggling to Meet Demand for the Leaf
Nissan‘s Leaf electric car has been in such high demand that the company is struggling to build them fast enough. It’s stopped taking new orders just to fulfill its current demand. Out of 27,000 total orders so far from the United States, Japan, and Europe, it has only completed 10,000. The remaining 17,000 will be…
